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“A true friend is a light in the dark.” (The Secret Keeper Quotes)
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“But it is human, is it not, to long for that from which we are barred?”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Children could be self-centred like that, especially the happy ones.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Don’t wait too long to realize what’s important. Your family might drive you mad sometimes, but they’re worth more to you than you could ever imagine.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It felt as if the sun had gone behind thick clouds, and he glimpsed how cold it would be if her no longer had her in his life.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it’s wondrous, don’t you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It was an anodyne word, disappointment, but the shame and helplessness intrinsic to it were breathtaking.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person’s presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away?”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided elsewhere, misheard or misunderstood, that to be surprised was no longer disconcerting.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Love, Laurel, that’s the only reason to get married. For love.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“My mother was a survivor; she’s a survivor still. If I’ve inherited half her courage, I can count myself a very lucky woman.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Never discount the possibility of turning up an answer none of the current theories predicts.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Perhaps all children were held captive, in some part, by their parents’ pasts.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“She chased across her memories to recall what had been said.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she’d been made to function best at a certain tuning.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“She wasn’t sure exactly, but she’d known it absolutely: there was more to life, and it was waiting for her.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“Something inside Dolly curled up and died. Things could not have been worse. Except that suddenly they were.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“The house remembered her. Laurel did not consider herself a romantic, but the sense was so strong that for a moment she had no trouble believing that the combination before her of wooden boards and red chimney bricks, or dappled roof tiles and gabled windows at odd angles, was capable of remembrance.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“The landscape of one’s childhood was more vibrant than any other. It didn’t matter where it was or what it looked like, the sights and sounds imprinted differently from those encountered later. They became part of a person, inescapable.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“There was a lid for each pot, she’d told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she’d found her lid in my grandfather.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life’s events.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
“What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.”
Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
